Pat Harvey

Pat Harvey is anchor of KCAL News' 5, 6, 9 and 11pm broadcasts.

She joined CBS2 after 20 years with sister station KCAL9 as one of the original anchors of the nation's first nightly three-hour newscast. In recognition of her 20th anniversary with KCAL and contributions to the people of Southern California, the Los Angeles City Council and LA County Board of Supervisors declared October 30th, 2009, "Pat Harvey" by proclamation.

Harvey was awarded the prestigious LA Area Governor's Award from the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 2015 for her body of work at CBS2/KCAL9 and philanthropic work in the community.

In 2012, Harvey was inducted into the National Black Journalists Hall of Fame in Washington, DC.

In addition to her anchoring duties < Harvey has appeared nationally as a guest co-host on the CBS Television Network daytime show, The Talk.

The veteran newswoman has covered some of the biggest local news stories, political conventions, presidential inaugurations and has travelled internationally. Harvey reported on the civil war in El, Salvador, the Aids epidemic in Eastern Africa and Russia as well as the historic first all-race elections in South Africa. She followed the works of a homeless painter in Los Angeles to the galleries of Paris and covered the installation of Pope Benedict XVI in Rome.

In 2019 Harvey interviewed the Grammy award winning rap artist Nipsy Hussle, a month before he was gunned down. She covered the Los Angeles riots in 1992 and again in 2020 after the death of George Floyd.

Harvey began her career in Saginaw, Michigan at WNEM-TV as a general assignment reporter and later produced and anchored the station's 6 and 11pm newscasts. In 1981, Harvey helped launch CNN Headline News and a year later was named co-anchor of CNN's Daybreak program.

Before joining KCAL, Harvey was an anchor and reporter for Chicago's superstation WGN-TV. There, her series of investigative reports on faulty pap smears lead to new health legislation in Illinois shut down a lab responsible for many of those defective smears in Tarzana, California. She was also named to the Governor's Task Force on Education.

For her broadcast work, Harvey has won 25 Emmy Awards, including three for Best Newscast. She is the recipient of two other life-time achievement awards, which include the LA Press Club's Joseph M. Quinn award and the Golden Mike from the Radio & Television News Association.

Harvey has dedicated her career to community service, advocating for children, education, the special needs community, breast cancer and victims of domestic violence. She is the recipient of two honorary doctorate degrees in the Humanities from American Intercontinental University and Mt. St. Mary's University in Brentwood, California. She was also awarded the NAACP's Ida B. Wells Award and the Silver Star Award from the YMCA.